PEL Presents Closereads: Kierkegaard on Subjective Knowledge
From The Partially Examined Life by Mark Linsenmayer
April 10, 2026 · 1h 1m
About this episode
The episode discusses Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel and his concept of truth as subjectivity.
On an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) that critiques Hegel's idea of logic (dialectic) and then argues for his own conception of "truth as subjectivity." Subscribe to Closereads (and get a link to this text to read along) at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy ; follow us there via the free tier to part two and many other episodes like this one ad free, or pay us to get parts 3-5 and everything else we've recorded. (Alternatively, support both PEL and Closereads at patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife for a nice combo deal.)
People in this episode
Host: Mark Linsenmayer
Topics covered
- Kierkegaard
- subjective knowledge
- Hegel
- truth
- philosophy
Keywords
- Kierkegaard
- Hegel
- subjective truth
- philosophy
- dialectic
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Closereads, patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy, patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife
Books & works: Concluding Unscientific Postscript
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